Flipping Houses
by Richard Warren
| February 5, 2008
You want to rehab houses, but where do you start? We see the fix-and-flip “reality” shows that, somehow, manage to have no basis in reality. How hard can it be to buy a house, rehab it, sell it, and retire to a life of luxury on the French Riviera? On TV, it all happens in [...]
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Blogs
by Richard Warren
| January 22, 2008
Who hasn’t had the rehabber’s fantasy? Let’s buy that run-down house, fix it up and make a fortune! The problem is that most new investors venture into this arena unarmed. There is the usual problem of paying too much or grossly underestimating the time or money that is needed, but there is another problem as [...]
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A Mothers Nature: A Force to Reckon With When It Comes to Mold and the Home
by Jim Watkins | February 15, 2008A few years ago, I bought a house that had been infested with black mold but it had been cleaned up by a professional remediation company months before I had bought it.
The house had an ARV over $300,000 and I got it for $160,000. Most of the walls did not have drywall and it was [...]